Photo Competition Winners Are Announced

Amateur photographers from across the country have been getting snap happy
to help raise funds for National Talking Newspapers & Magazines (NTN & M), a
national charity which provides blind and print disabled people with
newspapers and magazines in a variety of accessible formats.

The winning photographs will feature in the charity’s 2010 calendar, which
will be sold to raise funds. More than 80 entries based on the theme of
countryside and wildlife were received and the judges, Paul Adams, Secretary
of the Disabled Photographers Society, Jim Holden, freelance photographer
and former deputy picture editor of the Argus newspaper, and Trevor Wolford,
Sales Director from Judges Postcards Ltd, the company which will be printing
the calendar, had a tough time choosing the 13 winning photographs

The winners are:
Simon Courcha – Front Cover – Ashdown Forest, East Sussex
Simon Courcha – January  – Crowborough Common, East Sussex
Patricia Warren – February – Parkwood ,East Sussex
Susan Kernan – March – Petworth Park, West Sussex
Justin Akehurst – April – Longleat, Lake Wiltshire
Thelma Hamilton – May – Bishopstone, East Sussex
Jane Potter – June – ‘Comma Butterfly’
Paul Winterford – July – Ownby by Spital, Lincolnshire 
Jane Potter – August – Great Western Canal Tiverton, Devon
Philip Bird – September – Happisburgh Lighthouse , East Anglia
Charlie Watson – October – Hangingshaw, Scottish Borders
Paul McLaughlin – November – Red Squirrel
John Cameron – December – Ben Nevis Lochaber Scotland


"All the photos that have been chosen are worthy winners and we were
delighted with the very high standard of entries. We’d like to say a big
thank you to everyone who took part. The calendar will make a very
attractive present for friends or family and will help us raise much-needed
funds so that we can continue to bring print to life for blind and partially
sighted people across the UK."

The calendar, priced £6.99 including postage and packing, will go on sale
from the beginning of September 2009 and can be pre-ordered from the 1st
August. To order call 01435 866 102 or email: info@tnauk.org.uk